A friend of mine is the Executive Director for an organization with global reach. He is intelligent and driven, but constantly distracted. At any given time he will have Twitter, Gmail, Facebook ...

Demetri Martin has something important to say ... every week. Well, for the next seven weeks, anyway, as the trial run of his new sketch and stand-up show, Important Things With Demetri Martin ...

I don’t mean to josh; I mean this in earnest. I think it is time to eliminate the office of White House press secretary. There is no point in having a permanent Commender-in-Chief to tell us how ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It is an open secret that governments go to any extent to stay in office. But when they do so by trampling upon the principles of morality, they look ugly and power-crazy. The Manmohan Singh ...

Thando Mgqolozana’s latest offering, Unimportance, is a book that directs South African literature towards a new and important trajectory. The story ­details 12 hours in the life of Zizi, a hopeful ...

Forget the polls. Forget the talking heads. And in three days, you can forget all about Iowa. The quadrennial exercise of pretending the “first-in-the-nation” Iowa caucus determines much of ...